The Ultra Wide Landscape—Course Preview
Ian Plant
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How do those great photographers capture magnificent, wide-angle landscape images? In this series of videos, professional outdoor photographer Ian Plant shows you how he captures unusual landscape images in the South Dakota Badlands and the caves of Lake Superior.
You will learn how to shoot from ground level, prevent lens flare, and correct for distortion. You will also learn post-production techniques, including blending exposures to create HDR images for sharpness.
Big foreground. Big sky. This landscape photography style is designed for the ultra-wide lens. So journey into the world of the ultra wide landscape with Ian Plant.
See all of the videos in our Ultra Wide Landscape Course:
Ultra Wide Landscape—Course Preview
Introduction to Ultra Wide-Angle Photography
When to Use an Ultra Wide-Angle Lens
Shooting Near and Far with an Ultra Wide-Angle Lens
Focus-Stacking Photography with an Ultra-Wide Lens
How to Prevent Lens Flare
Shooting Interiors with an Ultra-Wide Lens
Retouching Focus-Stacked Images
Setting Up Your Tripod for Use on Ground Level
Blending Exposures Using Photoshop
Wide-Angle Lens Distortion Correction
My name is Ian plant, and I have a confession, I'm addicted to wide-angle photography. When you're doing ultra-wide-angle photography, you wanna be really close to your foreground subject. Low and close is your mantra. What I like to do is I like to have my foreground element fill the bottom half of the image frame, just fill that foreground space. So it depends on how big the foreground is, if it's something relatively small, I've gotta get even closer than I am now.
If it's something that's a little bit bigger, I can be a little bit farther away. But either way, I'm trying to make the near element in my shot fill that foreground space to make it more compelling and more dramatic and to make it a more important part of the overall composition. Big foreground, big sky. This scene was made for ultra-wide.
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